Experiment successful. Discovery is not a good place for newbies.

[Harus]

I personally have run into this loads of times. Several times a day actually. My first day here I got shot by a Rogue Dezzie flying back to Pennsylvania when I was still in my Starflea. Yeah sure I've been here for a while, but I stopped playing back in 4.84, and I came back to this new and improved and much different 4.86. A lot had changed that I didn't even know about, but I kept going based on the old 4.84 that I remembered.

Everyday I bug at least 5+ players while I'm flying around about their ID/IFF combo. More then once have I received no responses, thank you's and even F-Bombs. I'd say I myself am in the mediocre of the rules and know most of them to the best of my abilities (I learned the hard way that gunboats and stuff can now actively hunt/pirate/shoot transports).

I will admit, the ID/IFF setup can be challenging and confusing for those that don't know about them. Sometimes a new person understands "oh ok, i need this DSE ID for what I want to do" but when you dock on Baltimore, and your rep isn't high enough, you can't buy it, and they might not know why they can't, so the next best thing, freelancer.
Some instances require that you have to be a LOLwat for a while. For example, the Stork only being for sale in Rheinland. Universal, DSE, etc can't obtain this ship after they buy their ID, or else they'd be shot trying to get it, or turned down by the docking permissions. (I had to do this yesterday. Flew to Berlin with a Freelancer ID, got the ship and broke a rule by flying a 5k transport with a Freelancer ID, just to fly back to Liberty and get the right one).


A lot of things aren't explained, even here on the forums, for things that go on in game. Though I do want to say Kudos to Sindrome for doing this. It needed to be done, so people realize what they're actually "not" doing.

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